‘Pernicious and beauteous’

“You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.’’

–Stephen King (born 1947), famed novelist from Maine

Tenacious and beauteous

“You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.”

— Maine-based novelist Stephen King (born 1947), in Salem’s Lot